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Mark's Taxi Diaries
United Kingdom
Приєднався 19 бер 2010
Ride with me into the mysterious and intriguing world of a London taxi driver. I'll share with you my typical day out on the road, the amazing people I meet the routes I drive and the fascinating secrets of this great city that only a London Cabbie would know. Enjoy!
I got BLOCKED!
In this episode, cycling madness-how to wash a London taxi-and I get a 24 hour block on my ride hailing app. #blackcab #londontaxi #hackneycarraige #londoncabbie
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The world's HARDEST exam!
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I visit one of the world's most unique schools, a place where London Cabbies are made and discover how hard it is to learn the Knowledge of London. #blackcab #thekowledge #hackneycarraige #londoncabbie #blacktaxi Thanks to Gert and Lee and all the students at Knowledge Point school for their help. www.taxitradepromotions.co.uk/ Filmed and edited on iphone12 gopro hero 10 used for some mobile sh...
Bank holiday BONUS!
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It’s tariff 3 all day on a bank holiday! The highest tariff normally only in force from 10pm to 5am let’s see how this shift goes. #blackcab #londontaxis #Hackneycarriage #londoncabbie content.tfl.gov.uk/03-23-tph-notice-taxi-fares-and-tariffs-update-2023.pdf
I SCREWED UP!
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A cold March morning! A rare private booking to Gatwick airport followed by a trip back into London and me getting it wrong! #blackcab #Hackneycarriage #londonblackcab #blacktaxi #londontaxis
HOW MUCH do I make in tips!
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HOW MUCH do I make in tips! #blackcab #londontaxis #hackneycarraige (Disclaimer) These videos should not be used as a study aid for students studying the topographical test for knowledge of London. They are merely a snapshot of a London cabbie’s working day.
London's OLDEST phone box!
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Icons of London are many! In this episode I reveal the history of London's iconic phone boxes and find out why they are so loved, and what people are using them for today. #Londonphonebox #redphonebox
How ONE JOB changed my day!
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Another shift in January, the quiet time of year. However you never know your luck! This is what happened #blackcab #londontaxis #ridehailing #hackneycarraige
REVEALED! My Day driving a cab in London! (and youtuber)
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In this episode I share a day out on the road in January, talk about my UA-cam channel and my hopes for the future. #blackcab #hackneycarraige #londontaxis
Why I WON'T be driving for UBER!
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Recently Uber have announced they are teaming up with the London Cab trade, Really!? Lets get to the Bottom of this story. #uber #blackcabs #ridehailing #hackneycarraige Kipper season video below ua-cam.com/video/r3gpgIDcm6Y/v-deo.html
Birthplace of the ROLLING STONES!
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I visit the nightclub where the Rolling Stones did their first gig as a complete band. #rollingstones #theealingclub Many thanks to Alistair Young founder of www.ealingclub.com for his expertise and knowledge. Many thanks to the management of the Red Rooms for granting me full access.
How I stay HEALTHY driving a taxi!
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How does a London cabbie stay healthy in one of the worlds most unhealthiest professions. I do my best to offer up some tips on staying healthy at the wheel. #blackcab #stayinghealthy #sedentaryjobs #sendantarylifestyle
You WON’T believe what people ASK ME!
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You WON’T believe what people ASK ME!
CELEBRITIES that ride London Cabs!
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CELEBRITIES that ride London Cabs!
London's historic taxi shelters REVEALED!
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London's historic taxi shelters REVEALED!
My taxi was broken into and THIS is what they STOLE!
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My taxi was broken into and THIS is what they STOLE!
The World’s BIGGEST Diamond and the King’s Coronation EXPLAINED!
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The World’s BIGGEST Diamond and the King’s Coronation EXPLAINED!
When can a taxi driver REFUSE a ride?
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When can a taxi driver REFUSE a ride?
How does a London taxi driver make MONEY in January?
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How does a London taxi driver make MONEY in January?
I believe so but the waiting list is still ridiculously long, I understand it takes some getting used to. You also save money on car wash as you’d have time to do it yourself 😂 love the videos Mark be lucky
I understand the airport (Heathrow) isn’t for everyone but I do find it bizarre you come in from west London and don’t start at the airport. I drive 50 miles to start at the airport and usually make £30+ in tips alone each day.
I haven’t even got a reader, Also I just hate sitting around, are they letting new drivers sign up for the park yet?
I thought he was real to be honest up until I was about 50😂😂😂
Hi Mark thanks for the upload really enjoyed this!! I work for a firm in North Somerset who use a taxi app to give drivers their jobs at a cost of roughly £150 a week for this privilege 🤔. They have brought in a system where if you refuse work over a certain amount of times you are logged out for a period of time and the more you refuse the longer the penalty. I think it’s absolutely disgusting and disgraceful that you as a self employed driver who actually doesn’t work for anyone gets a penalty. (From the boss 🤷) The Taxi bylaws clearly state that a driver can refuse any job unless instructed by a police constable!! Obviously you wouldn’t refuse blind, learning difficultes etc because you’d be a c u next Tuesday if you did!!! But being punished for not doing the guy with piss stains on his trousers smelling of shit or the dodgy drug run or the local crack head seems unfair and under the bylaws is illegal. I wrote to the council but they don’t want to get involved 🤦 ✌️❤️
Great informative post! Love the insight into how it works at your end. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Conan Doyles grave is near to me at Minstead in the New Forest, take em there!
What is freenow doing?!? I’ve stopped using it as a driver for months now. I prefer Gett or Uber - Uber was a surprising one for me. Felt weird signing up for it, but I’ve been getting loads of work from it
Absolutely love your channel. I'm a London BusDriver for over 27 years Total respect.
And big respect to Bus Drivers, 🙌
Bully driver more like!
they used to take the hire sign off then they reversed the brushes
A lot of people think that.
If they really ARE Chinese, for me to break the news to them that Sherlock Holmes is a fictional chracter is like me telling you that: Yes, Confuscious IS real, but he is actually over 6-feet tall, well built and like his father, was a great archer with good fighting skills.
😂😂 Brilliant
I'm actually worried that this isn't a joke 😂
😂😂😂😂
This is why I hardly use freenow in town. Its either gett or taxiapp or street or rank
Great video of rail mail and museum
Great cab mens shelter ther must very cosy in side ther in winter the roof tiles made of wooden bacon look nice Great video
Taxiapp stolen from the many and taken by the few. Such a shame but I’ll never use it for that reason. No commission but there’s a set monthly fee whether you get work on it or not
I pretty sure there is absolutely no fee/sub to pay at all. At least I don’t. Customer pays a flat £4,00
Cycling Mikey don’t capture them only the cab drivers 😂😂😂
Why didn’t you use Vincent sq elverston ?
Well they just gave a me a number thought it was on the north side, thanks for watching
Wake up still doing Freenow shame supporting this minicab app , you sound like Uber driver
Thanks for watching!
Free Now’s answer to lack of coverage, block drivers. I deleted it months ago, they’ve got some bellends up there without a scooby as to how taxis work. We’re not PH, we don’t have to rely on their jobs. Plus other apps are available.
Really good video this one 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Wake up freenow! You block a driver for 24 hours at any one time of the day annd you have probably a quarter of your work force not unable to use app. That really helps cover the work when it's busy. Where is yor business common sense? What do i know I'm just a london taxi driver.
Why not just delete the app. What makes you think you can't survive without the apps? Come on, get your thinking 🧢 on, I mean you did do the knowledge.
Fed up with Freenow myself. They forget we don't need them and I earn better without them
I think the apps are handy for the drive in to work and back, I must admit I worked 6 days a week during Covid and Freenow was good to me. But I’m fully aware things have changed now. Anyway thanks for watching
Freenow is a Useless App
I think it should be possible to explain why canceling, even if that also could be exploited I guess.
There is a reason option that the driver has to go through before cancelling. Thank you for watching
You don’t have GPS?
Yes but never use it in town, maybe to just check the traffic
cheap carwash!!! most here in USA are over $16!
Hi Mark, It’s interesting to me when you say not much chance of a job on the street in Wimbledon, now Wimbledon is an affluent area, so why are people not likely to hail a cab? Perhaps it’s became they go out not expecting to see many cabs, and so have made other arrangements in their mind. When I’m in such areas, that I’m not really familiar with, the temptation to grab a cab is greater than in central London where public transport is so good.
Nobody’s walking out of a side street to a main road in the hope a cab will pass so they order on an app to their door.
As Cabolonero says, people just don’t expect black cabs to be available on the street there, so they will just order a ride off an app. Having said that very occasionally you can get lucky in the suburbs and get another ride off the street but it’s unlikely. I just just head back to where the work is. 🚕
Good
Have they moved Grosvenor Square? I'm sure that's where Belgrave Square used to be...
As far as I’m aware the squares are still in the same place
@@Marktaxi Phew! Just a slip of the tongue, then (en route from Grosvenor Crescent to Chesham Place). 😊
Don’t know if anyone else has said but loosing the hire light in those car washes wasn’t an urban myth on the fairways it happened to me and a friend also
Really! I’m guessing maybe the auto wash tech wasn’t up to it then. You’re the first driver I I know that it’s actually happened to. Thanks for watching,
Re: Cab Wash .... I cant believe what im seeing ? .... In My day, we would NEVER go through a Car Wash , as Brushes no good for Paintwork ... EVERY Cabbie i knew, would only do 'Hand Car Wash' (or) 'Jet Wash' ( In my 25 years pushing, I NEVER came across a Driver who took his / Her cab through a actual 'Car Wash' )... Im stunned actually ! ......... Still its a Butter 'New Breed' thing , The 'Rules' are a Changing, as Bob Dylan or someone said Similar !
I wouldn’t use them and 100% not in a txe only got to close the door hard for the paint to fall off
Unbelievable!! ANY vehicle through a car wash is like rubbing sandpaper over your body work. Come on Mark. Hand wash it. Every wash is free then!!
I’ve tried all those hand washes around my area and the first shell garage near me always came back better. No brush marks or signs of an auto car wash at all, the tech and components are a lot better now. Also got bored with a load of guys diving in the cab looking for spare change around the seats and sniffing around all the nooks and crannies. I would clean the cab myself but live in a flat with on street so it’s a real pain walking down with the buckets. Is Dylan ‘times a changing’? Good song writer awful voice. My badge is a replacement I was 67475 most cabbies spend their day tutting at me when they see my number. 😂 thanks for watching guys!
@@Marktaxi Im my day it was sacrosanct ....25 years, i never knew a single Cabbie who would use a Normal Car Wash ... Maybe its the 'Woke' thing to ignore the past traditions ! In the words of Lindsey Buckingham ' Never Going back Again' .. Footnote , I did once take a Garages Cab when i was a Butter through a Car Wash ... They went BALLISTIC ! lesson learnt !
@@middxmale9692 I guess nowadays it’s less about tradition and more about does my cab look better. So quick thought, maybe I’ll do an episode and compare the 2! Then do a rating at the end ‘Hand versus auto’
23:25 nooo, it is never enough for us
Stuff free now.
Best stop praising the bus lanes in case Saddo khan here’s you and changes it.
Wouldn’t surprise me
Hi Mark, Glasgow cabbie here. Really enjoy your videos and appreciate the effort it takes putting them together. This one especially so as I’ve spent a lot of time in Fulham and knew some of the runs 😂
Hellooooo Glasgow! Hey thanks for your kind words about the channel. Glad I could take you on a journey down memory lane.
Blocked? You naughty boy! I assume ones profession is ecstatic with Mr Khan’s reelection?😂
How did that fella get a third term ?
Because he got more votes ha ha
Does the auto washes not leave swrill marks on the paint?
Hand car washes leave swirls. In all honesty the automatic washes likely causeess swirls.
@@bigjml I suppose with hand car wash they need a 2 or 3 bucket method. A decent good quality brush auto wash as you say will be less invasive.
Nowadays the new auto wash uses components that don’t leave any brush marks at all. Company’s spend millions designing these things and have really improved over the years. Thanks for watching
@@Marktaxi good to hear. So convient too.
13:00 That would be a timely "triple flash and triple left signal" for the faulty left brake lights.
Great video Mark. Seemed like a great day for jobs . When's your next post
Gonna be doing every fortnight! Hopefully in 6 months every week. Thanks for watching
9:53 It's like our drivers cancelling a job without explaining to our dispatchers, as our company does have a comms system, but doen't have "For Hire" signs. You also cannot refuse Urgent Specimen, Blood Samples, Dialysis, Guide Dogs and Account jobs at all, but the penalty is a blanket 2-hour ban, meaning your tablet and meter (within the tablet) is blocked for 2 hours. All that said, however a 24-hour penalty is harsh.
Interesting! Is it 1 refusal the 2 hour ban? Also good that specific job categories ie Blood samples have a protected status. Obviously are apps don’t have that. Thanks again for watching, I think you’re my furthest global subscriber!
@@MarktaxiYes, but once the penalties are handed down by the system itself, it is difficult to remove. I obviously have no authority to deal with driver queries. Only plausible bypass I heard is if the samples were not ready to be picked up, but the booking was actually made and dispatched to you. The only other exception: You are a School Run driver. That takes priority over dialysis jobs awaiting return taxis due to far quicker turnaround time.
In Auckland's case? People on Lime scooters cutting through. As they are for hire, there's no guarantee that the helmet is included. You must have bike helmets when riding, even if it's just a practice just outside your backyard.
You have like too! They are everywhere and also on the Uber app
I like your vids. A subscriber for long time now. Like this style of vid like when you inclued a bit of history on thus..thanks
I surrendered my badge, the cab trade has been sold out, again!
Get video Mark and very intresting👍🏻
Excellent video. Well presented. Thank you. 👍
"Where too guv?" Waterloo, station? Well its a bit late for the battle....oh me sides
Do uber take wheelchairs? No ? isn,t there a disability act?
That’s beautiful good for you sir